Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, aluminum giant Alcoa (AA) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Alcoa and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Alcoa facts
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Headquarters (Founded) |
New York (1888) |
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Market Cap |
$9.0 billion |
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Industry |
Aluminum |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$23.7 billion |
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Management |
Chairman/CEO Dr. Klaus-Christian Kleinfeld |
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Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) |
2.7% |
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Cash / Debt |
$1.9 billion / $8.8 billion |
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Dividend Yield |
1.4% |
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Competitors |
Aluminum Corp. of China (ACH -7.55%) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 93% of the 3,679 members who have rated Alcoa believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those bulls, NoblyNaive, succinctly summed up the Alcoa bull case for our community:
Aluminum manufacturers as a whole are looking for about a 9% bump in demand, which should impact profits favorably. U.S. commercial aerospace has huge backlog of aluminum planes to pump out and is ramping up production considerably. No hiccup in the recovery will stop this bump in AL demand. This stock price has sunk to the point that under anything better than incompetent management, it can only go up if the economy stays on track for 2013.
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